Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

Joey Lauren Adams

A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children.

Joey Lauren Adams

Education is wonderful - it helps you worry about things all over the world.

John Gray

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

John Gresham Machen

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

Ken Dodd

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

Oprah Winfrey

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

Oprah Winfrey

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

Oprah Winfrey

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Olivia Wilde

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Kinky Friedman

The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.

Kid Rock

I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma.

Kenny Smith

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.

Kenny Smith

The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.

Ken Robinson

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

Ken Robinson

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Ken Robinson

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

Ken Robinson

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Ken Robinson

Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

Ken Robinson

"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves"

Ken Robinson

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

Kathy Ireland

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

Mark Twain

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Mark Twain

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Lajos Kossuth

I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.

Paul Chambers

Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.